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Spirits That Destroy-Emotions

Uncontrolled Emotions...Proverbs 17:22, Proverbs 15:13

1. Emotions: Mental excitement, feelings etc. Emotional: Excitable, easily agitated, tending to stir the feelings, to move or stir up.

   A. Emotions are an aspect of the mind. They are experienced within the spirit but have physical manifestations.

    1. For Example: Anger affects the adrenal glands, worry the digestive glands, fear the circulatory system, etc.

  B. Emotions may fear with normal processes of body and mind, may cause physical or mental ailments or even death.

  C. Emotions have in common the general idea of being stirred-up, excited, perturbed. They   are important factors in motivating human behavior. People are influenced more by their feelings than by reason.

  D. Emotions are means of communications. A gloomy person spreads gloom, a cheerful person spreads good cheer, and an angry person spreads anger. Whatever seed you have within is what you're going to sow! That's why the Bible teaches that we're known by the fruit that we bear.

  E. Emotions cause a person to be attractive or repulsive, reasonable or irrational, saintly or ignoble.

2. Because of the affects the emotions have on us, the Devil uses the method of “obsession” in order to destroy our soul. Obsession means to rule the mind, to pre-occupy the mind.

3. The Devil seeks to stir up your emotions, because a stirred-up emotion causes abnormal behavior patterns.

4. What modern science has found and what the Bible Confirms:

  A. In the last few decades, modern science has found increasing evidence that the vast majority of our physical aches, pains and illnesses are either caused entirely by or are heavily contributed to, by our upset human emotions. During recent years, medical scientists have come to realize that wrong emotions can produce the symptoms of literally dozens of different bodily ills. Common complaints such as dizziness, headaches, pain in the back of the neck, ulcer-like pain, gall bladder-like pain and tireless, etc. It is now established scientifically that no matter how intelligent you are, your emotions can literally kill you! Three thousand years ago...the inspired writer of Proverbs stated a truth that medical science is just now in the process of confirming...A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (Proverbs 17:22.

B. Emotional upsets, literally dries the bones of it's victims spiritually because upset emotions cause frustration, mental turmoil, belligerency, unhappiness, dejection, etc. Nothing ruins health and spirit more than grief, continual worry, anxiety, fretfulness, bad tempers, hatred and malice. The end of these things is death. They are destroying agents of the Devil. Uncontrolled emotions cause the entire mental system to become negative, the wisdom of judgement becomes clouded, the drive and enthusiasm are diminished. One's spirit is broken by emotional brooding and worry.

5. Negative attitudes must be avoided like a plague! It is a plague, a plague of Satan. People are constantly fretting, harping, complaining, being upset, etc. You will become a prime candidate for emotionally induced illnesses! This leads down a short path to spiritual destruction. At the same time, the ones who practices cheerfulness and positive thinking will be happy, healthy, emotionally balanced, victorious and living for God!